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41st year  -  N° 138                 Monday, 18 May 2026         Antwerpen		
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Friday 7th of January 1898
128 years, 4 months and 11 days ago




Presumed murderer Jack O’Neil is executed by hanging in Buckland, Massachusetts, United States.


O'Neil's last words were "I shall meet death like a man and I hope those who see me hanged will live to see the day when it is proved I am innocent - and it will be, some time". A few months later a dying Shellburne Falls soldier fighting the Spaniards in Cuba confessed to the murder. O'Neil became the last man to be executed in Massachussetts.